Since 1971, the Republic of China, or Taiwan, has been excluded from the UN and since then has always been rejected in new applications. Taiwanese citizens are also not allowed to enter the buildings of the United Nations with ROC passports. In this way, critics agree that the UN is failing its own development goals and guidelines. This criticism also brought pressure from the People's Republic of China, which regards the territories administered by the ROC as their own territory.[222][223]
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After World War II, the French Committee of National Liberation was late to be recognized by the U.S. as the government of France, and so the country was initially excluded from the conferences that created the new organization. Future French president Charles de Gaulle criticized the UN, famously calling it a machin ("contraption"), and was not convinced that a global security alliance would help maintain world peace, preferring direct defence treaties between countries.[221]
France has been a member of the United Nations (UN) since its foundation in 1945[1] and is one of the five nations, alongside China, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, that holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),[